FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My rates are pay-as-you-go. Online tutoring is preferred, but in-person is okay. I add at $20/hour surcharge. I also have a 24 hour cancellation policy. My price is also per family, so tutoring twins, for example, is the same price.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
With new students I definitely try to gauge a student's personality upfront to see if they prefer a straightforward disciplinarian or a looser approach that incorporates humor. Or a balance between the two. Then I know how the lesson should run. If I'm helping someone who has already had a tutor or test prep in the subject I'm helping with I do want to ask questions such as "How is your teacher?" "What did you learn from your last tutor?" "What didn't you like about your last tutor (or teacher)?" I have no problem taking what worked from a prior tutor and incorporating it into my lesson. My main goal is to make sure the student is comfortable with whatever strategy or techniques they want to use in their subjects.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
This is my bio from evansbreakthroughtutoring.com: Evan Wecksell got his first taste of tutoring in high school when he volunteered at the COPAY Tutoring Program in his hometown of Great Neck, NY. After high school, he attended Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts where he majored in Child Development and during those summers he continued to work with children at Buckley Country Day Camp on Long Island. A few years after graduating from Tufts University, with honors, he moved to Los Angeles and, with an eye on teaching, took and passed California's CBEST test. However, Evan ended up starting to work at several private tutoring companies and learning centers all over the Greater Los Angeles area. Such experience included Huntington Learning Center, Perfect Score Academy, Club Z Tutoring and Top Learning Center. There he taught in all environments in ratios of 1:1 to 8:1, including homeschool settings. He even took a practice SAT exam at some of the companies and thanks to his personal study and experience, his scores skyrocketed to a perfect 800 in math and 760 in verbal. Wanting to start to work for himself, Evan discovered the tutoring website Wyzant. There he became certified in over 40 subjects and started racking up tons of experience. As of 2021, he has tutored over 5000 hours on Wyzant alone, which led to nearly 1300 reviews that averaged 5.0 out of 5 stars! Evan was also named one of the website's 100 most prolific tutors and ranked him in the top 1% of tutors on the entire website! Now you can use Evan on Thumbtack.com!